ACEH – Personnel from the Criminal Investigation Unit of the Gayo Lues Police, Aceh Province, together with officers from the Mount Lauser National Park (TNGL) in the Blangkejeren region, dismantled a suspected trafficking case of Sumatran elephants.Police arrested a man with the initials AF (39 years old) resident of Ekan, Pining subdistrict, local district. Unfortunately, the partner of the initials AF ma escaped by dismembering himself in the river. The agents pursued the perpetrators of MA but were unsuccessful. The arrest of the suspect was carried out by the police in the bridge area of Pintu Rime Village, Pining Subdistrict, Gayo Lues Regency, Aceh Province on Saturday. “Our suspect made the arrest while “He wanted to carry out an elephant bear sales transaction,” said Police Chief Gayo Lues, Aceh, AKBP Setiyawan Eko Prasetya in a written statement received by ANTARA in Meulaboh, Wednesday, June 26. In this case, the police also obtained a pair of elephants which were not sold by the suspect AF. Eko said that before arresting one of the perpetrators, the police had already carried out an exorbation to obtain information about the elephant bear in the hands of the attacker.The Resmob Satreskrim team and the Tipidter unit of the Gayo Lues Police then moved quickly to the bridge in Pintu Rime village, Pining subdistrict , Gayo Lues Regency, Aceh because the place is said to be the location of elephant ear trade transactions. For his actions, the police trapped the suspect AF with Article 40, paragraph 2, jo Article 21 of Law No. 05 of 1990, concerning the conservation of natural resources and ecosystems, under the threat of a maximum prison sentence of five years.
Tag: Aceh elephant archipelago
